***Hi!  Words to the Wise 6/29/09***

By all accounts, the recent, dramatic increase of available photographers from 10 or 20 to lately a zillion per town or city listed at reputable, internet wedding sites does not indicate a sudden burst of creativity.  It does indicate a decline in the price of relatively decent SLR (interchangeable lens) digital cameras, which has encouraged a mass of unstudied amateurs to imagine they might be Wedding Photographers.  Quite occasionally lucky at some semblance of a memorable portrait, these persons exhibit little concept of artful lighting technique, feature heavily doctored if not "borrowed" images on their web sites, and otherwise most unhappily represent the exciting art of Photojournalism in particular and Wedding Photography in general.  More often than ever before, in the last year recently married couples will tell me about people who claimed to practice "photojournalistic" or "documentary style" photography and professed to have a grasp of portraiture but, despite misleadingly appealing websites generated by hungry website designers, in reality delivered forgettable "snapshot" quality work, no meaningful portraiture of the bride and groom together let alone with family members, and as heartbreakingly missed many requested shots altogether.  The good news is these "photographers" will disappear in a year or two; the bad news is their damage will have been done.  To read more about this and other matters of importance, please visit my FAQ page.  Most of all, be careful and choosy--it's your Wedding Day, and it only happens once.  If not me there are others who love their work as much as I do mine and will not disappoint you.  Thank you for reading, and all the best to you.

Kindly, Ernie

• Outstanding and impeccably detailed Wedding and Reception coverage including elegant Pre-Bridal Portraiture with studio lighting available at no extra cost, with all proofs professionally printed and delivered in a handsome proof album.  Packages include high-resolution digital negatives--JPEG on CD and 8 Bit TIF on DVD--save hundreds by making your own reprints, with the essential benefit of pro proofs to use as guide prints.  Eight Hour Package: $1595/Saturdays, $1495/non-Saturdays.  Five Hour Package: $1195/Saturdays, $1095/non-Saturdays.

• All packages include 60 day online viewing and ordering.

• When we shoot digital, we shoot strictly in RAW mode, then later process to TIF then finally JPEG--shooting in RAW format is important, and something you should know.

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Web Page established April 16, 1996.  Last updated June 29, 2009.

Eighteen years of outstanding artistry and intelligent, kindly service at affordable prices have earned us the distinction of being the Wedding Photography/Portrait studio to beat in the northern New England seacoast area of New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts.  As our pages' content is always changing, please bookmark us and visit again soon!  Thanks for visiting, and please contact me with your comments or questions about us or any aspect of your Wedding Day.  As well, further information may be had by writing to: Acclaim Professional Photography, P.O. Box 129, Rollinsford, New Hampshire 03869, or by calling (603)743-3786.  All the best to you!  Ernie
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